Abstract

In this paper a higher order approximation for single server queues and tandem queueing networks is proposed and studied. Different from the most popular two-moment based approximations in the literature, the higher order approximation uses the higher moments of the interarrival and service distributions in evaluating the performance measures for queueing networks. It is built upon the MacLaurin series analysis, a method that is recently developed to analyze single-node queues, along with the idea of decomposition using higher orders of the moments matched to a distribution. The approximation is computationally flexible in that it can use as many moments of the interarrival and service distributions as desired and produce the corresponding moments for the waiting and interdeparture times. Therefore it can also be used to study several interesting issues that arise in the study of queueing network approximations, such as the effects of higher moments and correlations. Numerical results for single server queues and tandem queueing networks show that this approximation is better than the two-moment based approximations in most cases.

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